Have to agree (shock, horror) with TT: Barca are clearly the best side. While I'm imensely proud of my boys for winning a third title on the trot for the second time in a decade, despite a very strong challenge from Liverpool, and for giving both domestic cups a shake with a team made up primarily of our young guns (and winning the lesser cup), and making consecutive European titles for the first time ever, while somehow finding time to compete in and win a largely meaningless club world cup tournament, reality is that Barca won a treble and made us look second-rate while completing it.
Next year is a new year, however, and you can never assume what will happen in a new season based on what happened in the previous one (observe this year's NRL).
Lose the daylight and i think your close.
Barca should not of been in that final.
ALL things considered? Alright then.
Barca - best team in the world
Spain - best national team in the world
Daylight
Man U - best English team
Wolfsburg - won the Bundesliga with a moderate squad
Liverpool - 2 losses in England and scored the most goals and beat Man U twice
Bordeaux - won Ligue 1 with a moderate team and relatively inexperienced manager
Sivasspor - playing lower league Turkish football only a few years ago and came second in Turkey
Hoffenheim - playing Öberliga 2 years ago, lead at the break
Genoa - Would have been in Serie C1 had Italian FA not extended the amount of teams in Serie B a few years ago - missed out on a CL spot by virtue of head to head with Fiorentina
AZ Alkmaar - Brett Holman being a European League Champion
All things considered then teams like Sevilla, Real Madrid, Milan, Inter, Juve, Arsenal, Chel$ki do not make the cut. Especially Sevilla, how did you come up with them?
how did I come up with them ?
quite easily, I watch them play
how did you come up with Genoa at 7 above all other Serie A teams who clearly finished above them ?
Bordeaux ? a one man team above Real, Milan and Inter.................well I guess you are entitled to your opinion but I dont agree with it, then again, I dont have to.
Seville finished 3rd in La Liga, I consider that more of an achievement than finishing 2nd in the Turkish league.
All things considered.
Berlin 4th despite being rubbish,
Wolfsberg top despite having three alright players.
Bremen nowhere.
Leverkusen nowhere.
Shalke nowhere.
This was Wolfsbergs one opp to win the league, next year they won't finish in the top 3.
I know it, you know it. It was a poor league this year.
Entertaining, but poor.
You lost all creditbility when you said Sivasspor as a top team in Europe so don't be chucking stones around.
Oh and yes, the top 10 teams in Europe are the team at the top of the hardest leagues. This is cause they played more hard matches and won most of them, in the year. Hence the top of the league. Its what leagues are good for, seeing who the best teams are.
I didn't say Sivasspor were a top 10 team I said their achievement of coming second deserved recognition beyond the likes of Chel$ki or Milan who have endless amount of funds are were never in the race for their domestic league titles at all.
Ofcourse Wolfsburg won't make top 3, they lost their coach and will have the majority of their team picked up and bought.
Why mention Leverkusen or Schalke? Been poor for some time.
Funny how when teams like Hull can do well in England it is a case of "anybody can beat anybody" but when this actually applies to a league like the Bundesliga it is a case of them being poor.